I
am so looking forward to the Spirit Cooking dinner at my place. Do
you think you will be able to let me know if your brother is joining?

All
my love, Marina”

Tony
then forwarded the email to his brother, John, asking:

“Are
you in NYC Thursday July 9

Marina
wants you to come to dinner

Mary?”

While
this seems like a completely normal and uninspiring email, a look at
what “spirit cooking” is, changes things immediately.

In
the video, Abramovic is seen painting the recipe for these “spirit
dinners,” using what appears to be thickly congealed blood. The
recipe read, at one point, “mix fresh breast milk with fresh sperm,
drink on earthquake nights.”

So,
we have to ask, did John Podesta’s brother invite him to go drink
semen mixed with breast milk? Yikes.

Abramovic
is known for her often-gory art that confronts pain and ritual. Her
first performance involved repeatedly, stabbing herself in her hands.
The next performance featured her throwing her nails, toenails, and
hair into a flaming five-point star — which she eventually jumped
inside of, causing her to lose consciousness.

During
the next, she ingested a medication to treat people who are
catatonic, which caused violent muscle spasms.

Perhaps
most famously, in 1974, Abramovic placed 72 objects on a table,
including a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, olive oil, scissors, a
scalpel — and a gun and a single bullet. Alongside the items was a
sign informing the audience that the items could be used on her in
any way that they chose.

For
six hours, she remained at the mercy of the audience, allowing them
to do as they pleased. During that time, she was stripped, cut, and
one audience member even held the gun to her head.

“What
I learned was that … if you leave it up to the audience, they can
kill you. … I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck
rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and
another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After
exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward
the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation,”
she later said of the performance.

Hillary Clinton’s inner circle keeps getting stranger and stranger, but at this point, we really just want to know what Podesta had for dinner